Notes

1. Metzger, Textual Commentary, 187–89.

2. Cf. Chris Keith, “Recent and Previous Research on the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53–8.11),” CBR 6 (2008): 377–404.

3. See Poythress, “Testing for Johannine Authorship,” 361–62.

4. Carl B. Bridges, “The Canonical Status of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11),” SCJ 11 (2008): 213–21 (220).

5. See Gary M. Burge, “A Specific Problem in the New Testament Text and Canon: The Woman Caught in Adultery (John 7:53–8:11),” JETS 27 (1984): 141–48 (148).

6. Bridges, “The Canonical Status of the Pericope Adulterae,” 220.

7. Ibid., 221.

8. Köstenberger, John, 248.

9. Webster, Word and Church, 71.

10. Webster, Holy Scripture, 36.

11. Ibid.

12. Calling it an addendum is to make an even more positive materialist judgment than calling it an excursus or not dealing with it at all.

13. Chris Keith, The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus, NTTSD 38 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 163.

14. Carson, John, 334; Morris, John, 780.

15. See Gail R. O’Day, “John 7:53–8:11: A Study in Misreading,” JBL 111 (1992): 631–40 (632).

16. Michaels, John, 495.

17. Morris, John, 782.

18. BDAG 575; LSJ 1012.

19. Wallace, Greek Grammar, 544–45.

20. BDAG 196.

21. Wallace, Greek Grammar, 162–63.

22. See Keith, The Pericope Adulterae, 11–21.

23. Cf. Ridderbos, John, 289.

24. See Wallace, Greek Grammar, 485–86.

25. Ibid., 300.

26. See Keith, The Pericope Adulterae, ch. 8.

27. Cf. Augustine, John, 33.5.117. As Keith explains, “Jesus is shown here to be the author for whom Moses himself was only the delivery person” (The Pericope Adulterae, 190).

28. Michaels, John, 499.

29. See Brown, John, 1:334.

30. Ridderbos, John, 291.

31. Cf. Luther, John, 23:316–17.

32. Cf. Hoskyns, Fourth Gospel, 571.

33. Cf. Calvin, John 1–10, 209.